William Overington
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16 minutes ago, R C-R said:
We have been through this many times now. That pledge is about users helping to shape the future of Affinity's development. It has nothing to do with their advertising or marketing strategy. But if you really think it is something they would find useful (as has been mentioned many times now!) the place for that is in the (duh!) feedback forums, not here
Pledge 4 uses the word "future". it does not use the word "development".
19 minutes ago, R C-R said:Can you not see the toolbars, studio panels, etc. in the video?
Well, seeing your comment, I ran the video again, and yes, I can just about make them out, knowing what they are already from using the software. But I had not noticed them before, all I noticed was the rapidly moving images.
William
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2 hours ago, dominik said:
This is going way off-topic of this thread and posting music videos does not help (or contribute) either on the topic. Please stay more focused. Thank you.
d.
Pledge 4 wants ideas and feedback.
So I posted feedback about the advertising of Affinity products.
So in the middle of gentle music is this advertising video.
Do those pictures actually represent use of an Affinity product?
William
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17 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
Serif has had the Feedback section of these forums for years now, William. And many users have contributed their ideas there over the years. I think they just expect us to keep doing that, using the existing mechanisms they already have provided.
Well, there could be a new ambience to how things are done, seizing the opportunity that the new ownership could bring. Or that opportunity could be grumbled away.
William
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I was playing the My Mix video sequence on YouTube while eating breakfast.
An advert for Affinity played.
"Hey Hey" music and fast moving images, not at all like the ambience when I am using Affinity products.
Perhaps there could be an advert of someone gently painting a landscape while music like this is playing.
William
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13 hours ago, R C-R said:
Do a forum search on "road map" & see for yourself.
Well, I did the search but have not found out.
William
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Just now, R C-R said:
Doing that would incur the same problems that prompted Serif to quit sharing road maps with users years ago. That has not changed.
What problems please? I either never knew of that sharing or I have forgotten.
William
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28 minutes ago, R C-R said:
That's how I interpret it too. In particular, I do not think shaping means making a commitment to sharing any of the ongoing development work with the user community.
Yet if Canva Affinity chose to do that, then that would be a significant change. A press release about it might well get lots of good publicity and that might help the business. It would put Canva Affinity into a leading league of its own and Canva Affinity could lead with innovation and development in the industry sector.
William
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3 minutes ago, Alfred said:
For what little it’s worth, Pledge 4 doesn’t suggest to me that anything in particular is wanted from us. At least, not in the sense of “We’re waiting to hear from you.” It comes across as nothing more than a general indication of a willingness to listen to customers.
Well, no matter how willing they are to be guided by our ideas and feedback, they cannot be guided by our ideas and feedback if we don't provide them with any ideas and feedback.
William
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1 hour ago, R C-R said:
Maybe, but they can honor their pledges without compromising their profits. How this can be accomplished has been discussed at length in this now very long topic ...
Well, the fact of the matter is that we have been able to discuss the situation in this thread. In the company's user forum.
1 hour ago, R C-R said:... but the bottom line remains that we cannot do more than guess about if or how those pledges will be kept in the future.
But we can do more. For example we can do things like suggest that the Managing Director might please consider posting a statement each week about "this week's progress".
And others could comment that each week is a bit too much to ask, but a monthly update posted on the last working day of the month might be a better thing to suggest.
And so on, which is what Pledge 4 seems to suggest is wanted from us.
William
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Thank you.
Pressing TAB worked. All of the "stuff" became displayed.
William
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I just started Affinity Publisher, version 1, (I only have version 1), not having used it for a long time and the display only has the menu bar across the top, when I was expecting lots of "stuff" at both sides and perhaps along the top beneath the menu bar.
Does anyone recognize what has happened please?
Can I reset it or something?
William
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Maybe off-topic but if readers would like to have and use a copy, free, of a font that I made that was last updated in 2012 here is a link.
https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?p=17690#p17690
The font is a TrueType font, no OpenType features in it.
There are lots of alternate glyphs, each encoded with a code point in the plane 0 Private Use Area.
In the font I experimented as to how far I could get with really swash glyphs.
The link is to the most recent post in the thread.
The thread has lots of posts and some illustrations of what can be produced using the font. The illustrations were made with PagePlus.
Here is one of them.
William
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45 minutes ago, KarinC said:
I am drooling over an expensive font that has a large character set. Can I access those additional characters in Designer and Publisher?
There could possibly be issues if the glyphs are not mapped to code points. They would only then be accessible by using an OpenType effect. I do not know to what extent every possible OpenType feature that could be being applied in the font is available for use in Affinity products. It might be that every OpenType effect that is used in the font is supported in Affinity products, but it depends on what the font designer(s) have used in the font and whether what is used is supported by Affinity products.
William
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2 minutes ago, Alfred said:
Are you perhaps somewhat hampered by a tiny laptop screen?
Quite possibly.
2 minutes ago, Alfred said:Do you have a TV set or an external monitor that you could use?
No.
William
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26 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
Are you talking about the official Serif tutorials, or those by other presenters?
I am not sure at present.
27 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:I'm sure Serif would be interested in feedback on their tutorials, probably over in the official tutorials topic
Oh, I thought that the Tutorials part was for listing the tutorials available, not for discussion.
I was just posting a general observation as general feedback.
William
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26 minutes ago, Alfred said:
If the video is too fast, adjust the playback speed (via the Settings ‘cog’ in the YouTube control console). And if the video is too tiny, switch to full screen.
I have tried full screen.
William
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21 minutes ago, KarinC said:
I would have to disagree. I have learned how to do just everything from watching videos. You should contact each channel creator separately if you have a complaint about their videos. Complaining here won't do much good.
I am not complaining. I accept that some people may well find the videos very helpful. I was just saying my point of view as feedback.
William
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I hope that this post does not annoy some people but I wonder if I may express my point of view about training videos please.
I have only tried to watch a few and so maybe there are some that are different from those that I have seen.
Basically I have given up on them as I find the ones that I have tried to watch unfollowable to me.
They seem to be images of the full screen, usually the black background version whereas I use the light grey version that has black lettering, but people seem to rush the pointer over the menu and click click click quickly.
To me, and I realize that I might be criticised for stating this opinion, but the videos that I have seen seem as if answering an examination question, where the audience (that is, the examiner) already knows the answer and the author of the video is trying to prove to the examiner that the author of the video knows what to do, rather than trying to teach people who do not already know the answer.
For me, not already knowing the answer and trying to learn, the presentation is too fast and too tiny and does not explain what is being done.
Can there be frames, on screen for long enough to read it and take it in, in a larger size of type please, with zoomed in views of menus showing what to click.
I hope that this is useful feedback and that this can be discussed please?
William
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Following on from my experience with the Quest art thread, I experimented with producing a picture using glyphs from the Webdings font.
This picture uses two glyphs from the Webdings font, and a rectangle, an Affinity Designer shape.
I produced the shadow by copying the one glyph, rotating it 180 degrees, changing the colour, shearing and then flipping 180 degrees and generally adjusting the position and the shear angle. The rectangle was introduced to put more space betwwn the cactus and the factory so that the shadow would not overlap the factory.
I know that the angle of the shadow is not right, but this is a first attempt, more modern art than like a photograph.
William
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15 hours ago, Alfred said:
Congratulations, William! I'm sure I would have rapidly ended up in a muddle if I tried to keep three separate documents in sync for a project like this
It depends on one's viewpoint I suppose.
I generated an A3 landscape document with Document units as Pixels rather than the default Millimetres.
So one untitled document open, a blank document.
I then used
File
Save As...
and saved it as Quest art 005.afdesign
I then used
File
Save As..
and saved as Quest art 006.afdesign
I then used
Fle
Save As..
and saved as Quest art 007.afdesign
So now I have one file open, with a blank canvas.
But, I want the files open across teh page in the order from left to right of 5, 6, 7
So I close Quest art 007.afdesign
I then open the files in the ordr 5, 6, 7 and so I have access to the three documents, and I work from left to right four times.
Quest art 005.afdesign is loaded with the picture at the start and that picture is unchanged but is copied four times.
Quest art 007.afdesign, over at the right, is blank at first and the final picture is gradually built up there.
Quest art 006.afdesign, in the centre, is the workspace. For each of the four colours it is cleared to start, a copy of the whole image in black is copied from Quest art 005.afdesign, parts of the picture not to be in the current colour deleted, then the remainder coloured to the desired colour, then copied and pasted into Quest art 007.afdesign.
So by closing Quest art 007.afdesign after it had been generated and then opening the three files in the order 5, 6, 7 a convenient workflow order from left to right is produced.
William
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I managed to produce the colourful version.
I had open three documents, from left to right.
Quest art 005.addesign
Quest art 006.addesign
Quest art 007.addesign
Into Quest art 005.afdesign I copied just the picture from Quest art 004.afdesign, thereby not having the remnants of the original text frame in Quest art 005.afdesign. I added a filled black square 300 by 300 with no border at (300, 300), so at the top left corner, to ensure correct register, though in fact this might not have been necessary, though it did give provenance that all was correct. Select All, and group.
Quest art 006.afdesign was a workspace.
Quest art 007.afdesign to build the colourful picture.
Then four times, one time for the sun, one time for the walls, one time for the roof, one time for the non-roof parts of the building, in that order, starting each time with a blank canvas in Quest art 006.afdesign, I copied the whole picture from Quest art 005.afdesign to Quest art 006.afdesign. In Quest art 006.afdesign I then used the Node Tool to show all the nodes, then deleted all parts of the picture except the current chosen part. I then was able to colour what was left on the canvas. In fact I used the RGB sliders as I like setting things by entering numbers. I then copied everything then pasted into Quest art 007.afdesign, ungrouped, checked that the alignment square was in the right place using the Transform panel and then deleted it.
William
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